HIM 500 Vendor Evaluation Matrix PDF

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comparing vendors for the medical center....

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Vendor Evaluation Matrix Instructions: Score each vendor on a scale from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) on each of your prioritized items. Total up you ratings for each vendor to help make your comparisons. Write the names of the vendors you are comparing in the water space provided in vendor columns. Use the blank rows at the end of the worksheet to ask your own questions.

Functionality/Usability Charting

Section totals

Vendo Alert

Vendor Intel

Priority 24

35

4

5

Can the system accommodate (and potentially improve) workflow?

High

Can the user quickly build and/or customize “off-the-shelf” templates?

Medium

2

3

Does the system offer various data entry options, e.g., dictation, voice recognition, structured notes, etc.?

Medium

1

1

Customize flash report changes to a patient treatment plan, such as new medications or treatments.

High

2

2

Med pass tracking, alert on overdue meds

High

1

1

Tracking treatments with update of progress

Medium

1

1

Care plan alerts

Low

1

1

Can documents be edited after completion

High

4

4

Flash alerts for doctors and other providers to cosign on documentation

High

4

4

Medium

3

4

Does the system allow user to forward patient information to appropriate staff such as other medical providers via messaging text messaging email, faxing

Prescriptions Can the user complete a prescription within a few clicks?

High

1

1

Ability to look up medication information?

Medium

2

4

How extensive (and how sensitive) is the system’s interactions-checking capability, e.g., drug-drug, drug-allergy, drug-food?

High

1

1

Drug interaction warnings

High

1

1

Transmit prescriptions to pharmacy in house

High

2

2

High

5

4

high

4

5

Can the user complete a lab order within a few clicks?

High

4

Can the system send lab orders electronically to laboratories, hospitals, etc., in the local market?

Medium

4

5

Can users pull up and review lab results within a few clicks?

Medium

2

5

System capacity to send prescriptions electronically to pharmacies Can the system used barcode scanners to upload medication administration to MAR and identify patient before medication administered

The ability of the system to send to local participating pharmacies of patients choosing?

Medium

Lab and Results Management 4

Text message when critical lab results

High

1

1

The system provides alerts for abnormal lab results. Provide normal ranges for comparison

high

4

4

Ease of use for lab results with interface

medium

4

4

Does the system show user-patient trending of results over time

Medium

3

3

Does the system utilize clinical information from all parts of the chart to provide decision support?

High

5

Data export for data mining

low

1

Flexibility of reports or dashboards to generate to the determined highest risk patients

Medium

5

5

Doe systems have access to evidence-based guidelines/literature directly from the system to assist in the clinical decisionmaking process with clinicians and other staff appropriate for situation with patients

Medium

5

5

Medium

4

4

medium

1

1

High

3

3

High

5

5

Decision Support 5

1

Disease and Population Management Assuming good data entry for all patients, can users query the system and identify patients with a particular condition, are on a specific medication, etc.?

Predictive analysis; treatments and medications have the best outcomes best practices Availability of system track 30-day readmission rates able to discern specific facilities in a query Can a user query the system and identify patients within specific parameters such as specific medications, particular medical conditions to see how treatments are progressing

Can users create ad hoc reports, or are they limited to the ones provided within the system?, Is there customization available for these reports

medium

5

5

medium

1

1

Can the user look up a patient by several different criteria, e.g., name, MRN, SSN, etc.?

High

3

5

Does the system provide a summary view of a patient’s health status?

Medium

3

5

Track access by user

Low

1

1

Medium

5

3

High

2

2

Medium

4

3

low

1

1

High

3

5

High

3

5

Mobile device support

High

1

1

Ability to notify other services of patient transfer admissions, discharges, and social

Medium

3

5

Are the systems able to track patients for follow-up and send out reminders Health Record Management

Does the system allow for aliases to services for victims of specific crimes, VIP patients, or prisoner inmates It is the system secure and HIPAA compliant

Do the systems avoid duplicate medical records and maintain records of former names with MRN’s

does the system have the capacity to handle other clinical documents such as x-rays, medical referrals to specialists, integration of medical provider information from other service providers Clinical Tasking and Messaging Ability to access and manage various tasks, e.g., sign progress notes, review labs, etc., within a few clicks? Capacity to task or message someone else in the practice and do it with a few clicks?

services to prepare for home discharge

Can tasks and messages be managed from different computers

Medium

5

5

Financial Considerations Roughly how much could the system cost my clinic?

High

3 $2,025,000

4 $1,587,000

The total cost of ownership over five years amortized over five years. What are the annual maintenance costs for the system

High

3

high

3

5 5

5

Financial solvency of the Company

Stability of Company

TOTAL SCORE

Medium

Medium

30 years in business with 364 hospitals that use the Intel system

4 area of concern with Intel is slow to respond to what they deem as a minor issue

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